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Oh? Hand it over then!

There's still no easy out outta our---understanding. We've got a medium? Great.

[Sam's expression twitches towards something that's like a smile, insofar as it shows teeth.]

That medium's going to be no help to you if I'm haunting you, what with there being the one reason I would.

[Oh, so she saw that eh?]

And why not? She told me she had the power to do so.

For one thing, the consequent haunting would be your own damn fault, for another, someone who deals with angry ghosts is not going to be sympathetic to someone creating them, and for another yet---since it seems like the thing most likely to hit home here---some self-interest?

Why does it matter if its my fault or not?

Ah, I have that part figured out. [He does not understand sympathy, but he understands coercion.] All I have to do is make her my friend. And then she has to help me. Its part of the deal.

Self-interest? You think she may charge me?

Did she not say something about doubting she should even be talking t'you if you're doing something that involves angry ghosts?

I think she may refuse to help you with ghosts if you kill anybody, as a way of discouraging you from killing anybody.

Well.... She said she wasn't sure.

But she can't refuse! She has to help me if she becomes my friend. And that's exactly what I intend to do, you see?

Not being sure about talking to sets some solid implications for actually-acting-on-behalf-of.

She seems like a nice person. Like a good person. Murdering someone would probably cost you her friendship---and probably other friends, since that's some serious shit!

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[Dirge huffs a sigh from his vents, the tip of one wing flicking.]

Do all humans have the same morals as autobots? [This is starting to frustrate him a little. Maybe this is why they always seem to team up with Prime's army.]

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[She turns her hands up in exasperation.]

Moot point, man, and beside the point mattering most, here.

I can't understand what you all have against taking a life. Aren't there other humans you'd like to get rid of that stand in your way?

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Actually, no.

[And it is an effort to refrain from adding 'not anymore' just to fuck with Dirge. LORD, GIVE HER STRENGTH.]

I think it's only justified in self-defense, on in defending somebody else. Can't really claim a want---beyond one like 'I want to live,'---takes precedent over another person's everything. When it comes to crossing that line, though...

You... [Dirge hisses and grabs the poor drone, his grip squeezing hard enough to warp the screen for a second or two.]

All of you are starting to give me the worst headaches!

[He growls in frustration, tossing the bot a few lengths away. By the time it floats back into range, he's turned away and started on some rant, half to himself.]

I don't understand at all! I thought I knew about friendship, but the rules keep changing. And everyone here is so....selfless. I wish Swindle were here. Or even my half-siblings. They would understand.

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[Look into the face of NO REGRET ~~though that might change when Sam learns that she is no longer regarded as 'the Sam human.'~~]

What did you think you knew about friendship?

[As irked as Sam's been, the question is nearly neutral.]

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Dirge, what is this all about?

Are you all right? [making sure]

[The clone glances back over his shoulder at the question, dentals showing for a moment before his mouth closes again in thought.]

Friends are valuable and good to have. They have to be protected. They have to help you.

But this other human now says they do not belong to they belong with, which I do not understand.

I also am unsure now of exactly how to obtain them. Some I have acquired easily, others I still do not know how to make mine.

I'm having trouble getting the new human to be my friend. I need her because she can get rid of ghosts.

I am moderately pissed and kind of concerned for my future well-being, but otherwise peachy.

[beat]

Pretty sure Dirge is trying to determine what he'd really risk by murdering me.

...You were off to a solid start.

[And at least decent enough to answer the question. See, this is why civility matters.]

Ghosts...what ghosts? [He knows...or can guess, but he wants to hear Dirge say it.]

What the Pit are you up to now, winglet?

[Read: Are you doing something stupid that he's gonna have to fly over there and smack you for?]

[He...offlines his optics a moment.]

Do you know why?

Ghosts of witches. Who've promised to haunt me if I kill them or anyone else!

Oh yeah.

This began when I was trying to convince him that, despite our adaptability, farming humans was an awful idea. That convincing conversation sorta segued into an effort to explain why eating people is wrong and while I was trying to cover the moral aspects, Dirge got testy and declared he'd eat whatever he wanted. I said that if that included people---human or any others---there would be problems. I listed some, he didn't seem to take them too seriously...

...so I said that if he ate anybody, I'd take his sense of taste away. And explained he didn't have an easy out in offing me, because I'd haunt the hell out of him.

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